I am taking an intro to drawing course for school and a homework assignment was to create a still life using fabric, and draw it. In order to preserve it long enough for me to work on it over several days, and in order to help me frame/compose it i decided to take pictures with my brand new fz15 basically threw the towel around my room and took pics for a while. Then looked through and cropped one. It has been auto leveled in PS.

hey, I took drawing up the wazoo @ Parsons and this isn't a bad shape, I think you shouldn't have cut off that top hump looking area, and also had some negative space up above, are you drawing in charcoal? If this is what inspired you, go for it, even if it was the only thing you had in your dorm, so be it. When you draw it, make it your own. I am sure it will come out great. And as far as lingerie and the girls, leave that for your life drawing class!

Try to have diffuse light. Bounce sunlight or bright light with white paper so the shadows will look half as hard / dark.

When having shapes like this, you get all these bends and turns en round shapes. Try not to crop or cut them of the picture (at the top). But If there is a round shape. try to get the whole shape on the photo.

Taking a photo from a lower perspective makes it look larger and more impressive, if you're afraid of having a wrong background try zooming (blurred background) or an even color wall.

I think you can make this into a nice picture. (maybe duotone would be nice grayscale + light yellow maybe )

Go take a shower. Dry off using the towel. Throw it over the back of a chair haphazardly. Get dressed. Take a few photos. Choose one and draw it. This waythe drawingwill have some kind of story behind it rather than just a lump of cloth.